Healers on Healing

Author: Richard Carlson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0874774942
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
In thirty-seven original essays written for this book, some of the world's leaders in healing explore their personal and professional experiences in order to uncover the underlying principles on which all healing rests. Rather than focusing on diverse techniques, the writers seek the "golden thread" that ties together the wide range of approaches to healing. In simple, direct language, the contributors explore the complex nature of healing from many viewpoints. We hear from physicians, psychologists, nurses, metaphysical healers, and shamans. Their topics include: what healing really is and how it takes place the power of the healer within what to look for in a healer the function of spirituality in healing the dramatic effects of the healing relationship the role of attitudes and emotions love as a healing force healing and death The result is a grand synthesis of heartfelt thinking that offers a treasury of profound insights for people in the healing professions, people who seek to develop their own healing capacities, people who wish to benefit from healers, and anyone interested in the magical properties of human relationships.

Healers on Healing

Author: Richard Carlson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0874774942
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 225

On Becoming a Healer

Author: Saul J. Weiner
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421437821
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
An invaluable guide to becoming a competent and compassionate physician. Medical students and physicians-in-training embark on a long journey that, although steeped in scientific learning and technical skill building, includes little guidance on the emotional and interpersonal dimensions of becoming a healer. Written for anyone in the health care community who hopes to grow emotionally and cognitively in the way they interact with patients, On Becoming a Healer explains how to foster doctor-patient relationships that are mutually nourishing. Dr. Saul J. Weiner, a physician-educator, argues that joy in medicine requires more than idealistic aspirations—it demands a capacity to see past the "otherness" that separates the well from the sick, the professional in a white coat from the disheveled patient in a hospital gown. Weiner scrutinizes the medical school indoctrination process and explains how it molds the physician's mindset into that of a task completer rather than a thoughtful professional. Taking a personal approach, Weiner describes his own journey to becoming an internist and pediatrician while offering concrete advice on how to take stock of your current development as a physician, how to openly and fully engage with patients, and how to establish clear boundaries that help defuse emotionally charged situations. Readers will learn how to counter judgmentalism, how to make medical decisions that take into account the whole patient, and how to incorporate the organizing principle of healing into their practice. Each chapter ends with questions for reflection and discussion to help personalize the lessons for individual learners.

Woman as Healer

Author: Jeanne Achterberg
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834828715
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
This groundbreaking work examines the role of women in the Western healing traditions. Drawing on the disciplines of history, anthropology, botany, archaeology, and the behavioral sciences, Jeanne Achterberg discusses the ancient cultures in which women worked as independent and honored healers; the persecution of women healers in the witch hunts of the Middle Ages; the development of midwifery and nursing as women's professions in the nineteenth century; and the current role of women and the state of the healing arts, as a time of crisis in the health-care professions coincides with the reemergence of feminine values.

Healing Spirits

Author: Judith Joslow-Rodewald
Publisher: Celestial Arts
ISBN: 9781580910644
Category : Healers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Three women--Joslow, West-Barker, and Mills--traveled across the US to meet, learn from, and record the stories of 14 practicing healers. The result of their journey in words and pictures is a testament to the lives and work of remarkable men and women. BOTMC selection. Photos.

All Women Are Healers

Author: Diane Stein
Publisher: Crossing Press
ISBN: 0307783774
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
“By the study, experimentation and practice of natural healing, women are changing and charting the future of health care. Despite heavy resistance or lack of recognition from patriarchal medicine, they are nevertheless making positive changes that will continue and increase. Women’s emphasis on one-to-one work practiced in mutual agreement and participation is very different from mechanized and big-money medicine, and has results and successes far beyond expectations. The emphasis on self-healing returns health care to the consumer, to women’s lives and bodies, for the first time in centuries. The medical system cannot control a movement held in the hands of women, though it may try. Women are taking control again of healing, our daughter-right, for the first time since the matriarchies and the Inquisition.”—from the Introduction

The Wounded Healer

Author: Henri J. M. Nouwen
Publisher: Image
ISBN: 0385148038
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
A radically fresh interpretation of how we can best serve others from the bestselling author of The Return of the Prodigal Son, hailed as “one of the world’s greatest spiritual writers” by Christianity Today “In our own woundedness, we can become a source of life for others.” In this hope-filled and profoundly simple book, Henri Nouwen inspires devoted men and women who want to be of service in their church or community but who have found traditional outreach alienating and ineffective. Weaving keen cultural analysis with his psychological and religious insights, Nouwen presents a balanced and creative theology of service that begins with the realization of fundamental woundedness in human nature. According to Nouwen, ministers are called to identify the suffering in their own hearts and make that recognition the starting point of their service. Ministers must be willing to go beyond their professional, somewhat aloof roles and leave themselves open as fellow human beings with the same wounds and suffering as those they serve. In other words, we heal from our wounds. The Wounded Healer is a thoughtful and insightful guide that will be welcomed by anyone engaged in the service of others.

Healing the Healer

Author: Daniel H. Angres, M.d.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781468150674
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
This book is a comprehensive guide on the recognition, assessment, treatment and follow-up care for addicted physicians. It includes outcome data, program design, issues for family members and re-entry issues. This will be helpful for those suffering from addiction. their family members, the workplace and addiction treatment providers.

Healers and Healing

Author: Roy Stemman
Publisher: Piatkus Books
ISBN: 9780749919429
Category : Mental healing
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This compelling book examines many amazing cases of spiritual healing - laying on of hands, absent healing, healing by hypnosis and much more.

Healer of Angels

Author: Martin Tyner
Publisher: Amethyst Moon
ISBN: 9781935354123
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Healer of Angels is a heartwarming collection of true stories of a young boy overcoming life's challenges and disabilities with the guidance of wise grandparents and other mentors. This process leads to a life dedicated to the rescue, healing and release of the wild creatures of the desert southwest. Some of the stories are humorous and some bittersweet, but each will inspire, teaching a lesson as it touches the readers' heart. Join Mr. Tyner as he reflects back on his life: from a young boy terrified of birds to becoming the first man in North America licensed to train a wild golden eagle in the ancient art of falconry; from a shy dyslectic teenager, to the founder and CEO of the Southwest Wildlife Foundation. Martin Tyner is one of America's foremost wildlife rehabilitators, a master falconer, eagle falconer, and wildlife and environmental educator. He travels throughout the west providing wildlife programs accompanied by his devoted companion, Scout, a wild golden eagle.